This is the year I decided to challenge myself and made affirmations that I remind myself of, all the time. I believe there is no job I cannot do, there is nothing I cannot achieve and that if I have to strike gold I have to sharpen my skills to face the challenges.
I am pursuing my MBA from TAPMI, which is one of the reputed B-schools in the country. MBA is not just about managing stuffs, but how well can you achieve your primary task while working on thousand others. I was very ambitious to put my hands in every opportunity coming my way and work on everything that was available in campus. That is when I was selected in one of the most elite committees of TAPMI, Brandscan. As everyone says, the workload is terrible in the committee and that your studies get hit by the amount of dedication you have to give to it. Though I ignored all this, but ultimately I had to face the same situation. I was unable to manage my life in TAPMI. I could see others managing their life with such an ease, but at the same time, I was struggling and lost all faith in myself. The pressure of performance, competition and keeping yourself above the rest was always looming on my head. I somehow knew that extra-curricular activities matter only if you have done enough justice to your academics. Just when I realized I cannot manage to get decent marks all at once but rather I have to gather them in bits and pieces. I started paying attention to smaller components of grading rather than waiting for the end term exams and competing with the entire batch. I sailed through the first year with decent marks and also managed to give some good contribution to the committee I worked at.
It took me some time to understand the art of managing yourself before a long stint of depression and confusion, to the extent of even considering MBA as a wrong career option for me. In the end, I have one final belief and that is that anyone can be someone if only you take that Leap of faith.